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to the girl. She stopped crying and became relaxed.
My guru suddenly entered the room and asked me rather angrily, "What are you doing?" Of course he could see what I was doing, but I told him anyway and he said "No, without proper knowledge, you cannot heal and it is dangerous to try." I, or course, did not argue with my guru even though my effort had already been successful.
A day later after my guru had cooled off and forgotten about the incident, I went back to the girl to check on her condition. Although she was still in pain, particularly on her foot where the scorpion had bitten her, the blueness was still gone from the part of her leg that I had touched while repeating the mantra. To finish my cure, I put myself in the same concentrated state of mind with which I had begun the healing treatment, and repeated the mantra anew.
When I put my hand on her foot, the blueness and pain completely cleared from it. It was like a miracle that I was able to heal the girl. Those who were present were very impressed. Yet I had only let the cosmic energy of consciousness flow through me like it naturally does at the vibratory level of sound. I, at an ego level, had done nothing to heal the girl.
With that early experience at healing-I was just nine years old at the time-I began convinced, beyond doubt, that one can heal another human being through the energy of consciousness and the sacred vibrations of sound. Even though there may not be sufficient scientific evidence to
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